He told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that he was confident President-elect Joe Biden could deliver on his pledge to vaccinate 100 million people in the first 100 days of his term in office, which begins on Wednesday.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Ontario reports 2,578 new covid cases
Ontario is reporting 2,578 cases of #COVID19 and over 40,300 tests completed. Locally, there are 815 new cases in Toronto, 507 in Peel, 151 in York Region, 151 in Niagara and 121 in Hamilton.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 18, 2021
Ontario seniors ‘living in fear’ of COVID-19 feel forgotten in vaccine rollout plan
When the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved in Canada, Ketty Samel and her 76-year-old husband Morris believed the end to the long months of isolation was in sight. Since last March, the Thornhill, Ont., couple has been hunkering down in their home.
“We’re living in fear. For me to go to a grocery store right now, I’m in a total sweat. I’m stressed, I walk in and I walk out. I grab whatever I need off the shelves and that’s it.”
Under Ontario’s vaccination rollout plan, Samel, 71, and her husband will be vaccinated in Phase 2 — a phase that could begin as early as March, according to government officials, and will continue through to July. It’s a tiered system by age groups, starting with those 80 years of age or older, then decreasing by five-year increments.
The comments are running from charges of fear porn by the CBC to blame Trudeau and even Harper?!!?
My 95 year Mum has been in hospital since before Christmas, never infected she has yet to be vaccinated despite being held in two weeks of isolation twice because of pandemic outbreaks at the hospitals. She’s in more danger there than at home.
The New York Times is Now Weirdly Pushing The Idea of Wearing 2 Masks at Once to Combat COVID
Most of us are old enough to remember back to March 2020, less than a year ago. That was a month in which multiple health officials, including U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, advised against wearing masks to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
“It actually does not help, it’s not been proven to be effective in preventing spread of coronavirus amongst the general public,” Adams said of mask-wearing in an interview with Fox News.
CBS’ Catherine Herridge Drops Some Troubling Previously Unknown Info About Coronavirus
There has been a lot of speculation over time about the origin of the Wuhan coronavirus.
Obviously, it originated out of Wuhan and China was responsible for hiding from the world its true nature and spreading it to the rest of the world.
But now CBS’ Catherine Herridge is dropping some intriguing information from the U.S. State Department. They’ve come out with a fact sheet with previously unknown facts about the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Care home staff struggle to isolate dementia patients during outbreaks: experts
Staff in long-term care homes across Canada are struggling to isolate elderly residents with dementia during COVID-19 outbreaks, accelerating the deadly spread of the virus, experts say.
Gripping ’09 Documentary Featuring Fauci, Redfield, & Other Now-Familiar Faces Inadvertently Sheds Some Very Interesting Light on COVID-19
Sometime in the early 2000s, a young Canadian filmmaker by the name of Brent Leung found himself struck by a number of facts:
The media and education establishment had instilled an obsessive fear of HIV and AIDS—not just in him—but in his entire generation.
He didn’t have a clue about the difference between HIV and AIDS or even whether there was one or, for that matter, what either is even precisely supposed to be.
Neither did virtually anyone else.
It is, of course, very unlikely that Monsieur Leung was the first to recognize this all-too-common gap between the general public’s certainty about some topic and their paucity of any actual knowledge that might warrant it.
Be that as it may, Leung’s proactive response to his befuddlement certainly was unique.
He went to the trouble of contacting all the major experts on HIV and AIDS and somehow got every single one of them to appear on camera as he asked the most basic questions about what those two acronyms represent and the relation between them.
The result of Leung’s dogged determination to get to the bottom of this disease he’d been taught to obsessively fear is about the most fascinating, can’t-stop-watching-even-if-you-want-to, 90-minutes of video that you’re likely to encounter.
That would be so even if the massive worldwide upheaval we experienced in 2020 had been nothing more than an awful bad dream.
But, of course, it was, sadly, all too real.
As such, Brett Lueng’s documentary—though released way back in 2009— winds up inadvertently shining a very different and interesting light on the obsessive fear of COVID-19 that overcame the world in 2020.
Every single passenger on board 2 international flights to Canada informed that they were potentially exposed to COVID-19
Two Air Transat flights had so many people on board infected with COVID-19 that all the passengers are now deemed to be at risk of catching the virus, the Toronto Sun reported.
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High Decibel Social Distancing ‘Dog Collars’ for Factory Workers Deployed
A Swedish manufacturer in France has been accused of treating their employees like dogs after the company asked its workers to wear a social distancing device that emits a high decibel sound if employees are too close to each other.
Ice Cream From China Contaminated With CCP Virus: Officials
Officials in a Chinese municipality said that three samples of ice cream tested positive for the CCP virus, and thousands of boxes were confiscated, according to state-run media.
Storage of the ice cream, produced by Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Co., was sealed after samples sent by the firm to a local disease control center last week tested positive for the virus.
Officials said that the company’s more than 1,662 workers were placed under quarantine due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—also known as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Stop Quebec’s ineffective lockdown now
In Quebec, our government has issued orders shutting down the province for a month, complete with an 8 pm curfew and a ban on religious services, in response to an entirely predictable seasonal surge of the coronavirus, which emerged from Wuhan, China, about one year ago. Premier Legault has offered no cost/benefit analysis and no moral justification that can stand the least scrutiny. He merely repeats the refrain of equally irresponsible medical experts who claim that this will somehow rescue us from an impending disaster by stemming the winter wave of COVID transmissions. It will do no such thing. What it will do is cause still more serious harm to people deprived of their incomes and of their support communities, to say nothing of their constitutional rights and freedoms.
Music store fined: Family trying piano broke gathering limits
Here’s what happened: a family of three came to Gladys’ store to pick up guitar strings. The store had already closed for the day, but she let the family in to purchase the strings. The father mentioned he was also looking to buy a piano for his son.
Given that the piano he was eyeing was about $5,000, he wanted to try out the piano before purchasing it. His request was perfectly reasonable, and Gladys gave him permission to tickle the ivories.
That’s when someone who likely deserves the 2020 title of “Ultimate COVID-Karen” wandered over and looked inside the store window. You see, there is an individual who “patrols” the strip plaza where Excel Music is located, dutifully ensuring that all the merchants play by the ‘rules.’
Ontario reports 3,422 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting 3,422 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 60,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 1,035 new cases in Toronto, 585 in Peel, 254 in Windsor-Essex County, 246 in York Region and 186 in Niagara.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 17, 2021
Uptake for the COVID-19 vaccine has been high among Toronto’s long-term-care home residents. For staff, not so much
They’re on the front-line of the COVID-19 pandemic, among the most at risk, and one of the first priorities for the rollout of the vaccine.
But vaccine uptake among employees of city-run long-term-care homes in Toronto has been spotty, and a lack of hard numbers in other regions is making it difficult to know exactly how many are on their way to being protected.
On Friday, the city announced a milestone, that vaccines have been administered at all long-term-care homes, ahead of next week’s goal. But according to Toronto Public Health, less than half, or 43 per cent, of the roughly 3,000 workers in city-owned homes have received the first dose of the vaccine or given consent to be vaccinated at an upcoming clinic. That’s compared to 91 per cent of residents within the city homes who opted to get the voluntary jab.
Mom is being transferred to a physio rehab today. It reached the point where I told the planner last week I would consider taking her home rather than have her imprisoned at the hospital. It was doing her more harm than good as conditions at the hospital were far from ideal. Broken hearing aids, stressed staff resulting in occasionally hostile nurses, it looked all too much like one of Ontario’s alleged care homes. I refuse to send Sainted Irish Mudda to one of those charnel houses.
3 arrested, 18 failure to comply charges laid amid Toronto anti-lockdown protests
Toronto police arrested three people amid anti-lockdown protests in the city on Saturday, including two people who allegedly organized the demonstrations and a protester who allegedly assaulted a police officer.
Toronto police also laid 18 charges of failure to comply with the provincial stay-at-home order that’s currently in effect. A Toronto Police Service spokesperson said they were unable to say if it was 18 individuals who were charged or if some individuals are facing multiple charges. No further information has been released on the exact offences.
A large group flouted the province’s stay-at-home order by staging an anti-mask protest in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square before marching down Yonge Street. Toronto police later reported there were two large gatherings in the core.
VIDEO: Toronto Police arrest protest organizer and confiscate audio equipment. pic.twitter.com/pF0uYcULUZ
— CrasHTalk (@CrasTalk) January 17, 2021
LIVE in Toronto: Police continue to arrest anti-lockdown protestors who attempt to re-enter Yonge-Dundas Square. Police have asked everyone to disperse
READ: https://t.co/g9q6d9Ct1W pic.twitter.com/XbKYHUGOJS
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 16, 2021
More – Police make arrests, disperse crowd of anti-lockdown protesters in downtown Toronto
Biden Will Deploy FEMA and National Guard to Vaccinate Americans
The National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will have key roles in President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to increase the numbers of Americans being vaccinated against the coronavirus.